How to Get Free Publicity For Your Business

How to Get Free Publicity For Your Business

How to Get Free Publicity For Your Business.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Coming to you live every day, today from Grants Pass, Oregon here at the headquarters for BrianJPombo.com and today we’re going to be talking about how to get free publicity for your business and what is free publicity?

What is it?

Free publicity is all about getting attention to any type of a free public forum, media and so forth.

I’m going to give you a real quick tip, one of the most unused areas in the terms of publicity.

This doesn’t work as well for local unless you have local versions of these, but it’s podcasts. Podcasts, they’re out there. They’re out there forever.

Most episodes are out there forever.

Even if a podcast keeps producing more episodes, the old episodes, oftentimes as long as the person is still paying their hosting bill, that stuff continues to go on and on forever.

And sometimes other websites will pick them up and put them out there even after the fact. And so you have websites like Archive.org and so forth that will grab onto these things and sometimes you can’t get rid of them once they’re out there, which is really good for you if you are looking to have that type of impact online.

Now, like I said, if you’ve got local podcasts. Podcasts that have to do with your area, then that’s a great thing to plug into. But if you have more of a national or international flare to your business, then you’re going to want to look for podcasts that have something to do with your niche, with your industry.

Podcasts that people who would become your customer or client. We’d be listening to them.

Is this one which we start out as a video, a vlog that goes out every day, and then the audio gets put out there every day via podcast.

So we’ve got this as a podcast, Brian J. Pombo Live. I also have another podcast, which I’ve mentioned on here before called The Off The Grid Biz Podcast.

That has everything to do with businesses that are in the self reliance field where I go and I interview them or people something having to do with business or something having to do with self-reliance in that area or some type of lesson for someone who has a business in the self-reliance field.

So that’s The Off The Grid Biz Podcast. You’ll find that at OffTheGridBiz.com.

Now with those two podcasts, how often do you think I’m hit up to try and get onto my podcast? You’d be surprised. I don’t get hit up hardly at all.

Once in a while someone who knows me and may asked to be on it, but I’m always asking people, I actually have a bumper on the end of my Off The Grid Biz Podcast asking if you know somebody or if you are, he’d be on the show, let me know. And we’ve got a special spot on the website where they can sign up.

So that’s still available.

If you’re interested. Even if you’re interested on coming with me live on here, let me know and we’ll, we’ll see if we can arrange something because I love to have guests and I love to be able to talk to people.

Not that I have a lack of them, especially on The Off The Grid Biz Podcast. I’ve got a huge list of people to get ahold of, but you’re always welcome to jump on it.

So that’s a great idea for publicity. But I want to show you how to take that and go even further with it. And it’s a simple, simple thing.

I’m going to give you an example. So I’ve mentioned before an interview I did with RaeJean Wilson. She is one of the owners, the family of owners at Glory Bee glory Food’s.

Beyond just honey, they have a number of other natural based foods that they put out there on the market.

You can find their stuff just about anywhere.

They’re out of Eugene, Oregon, which isn’t that far North from here. Yeah, interviewed her. Great interview. Really interesting.

You can go and click the link below in the description. Go and listen to that over on The Off the Grid Biz Podcast. Afterward we broadcasted it, her assistant Jesse emailed me and asked me if they could send me a gift.

So I, uh, I had, I sent my address over to them. Turns out it was the wrong address because I transpose two of the addresses.

I’ve got a couple of business addresses and so forth. So I messed that up.

And then I had to, they got the package back and they said, well, what can we do?

I sent them the right address.

Let me this what was in the package, great little envelope. Look at this.

Happy Holidays. It’s got the bees with the a little Rudolph Bee on the end. That’s brilliant.

Happy holiday.

Hey, Brian, thank you for the opportunity to share the family story of Glory Bee.

Happy Holidays,

RaeJean.

And with the little inscription on the card and it’s a specific card made just for them.

I got this awesome bag. Look at this. Save the Bee, Glory Bee. Their organization that they’re promoting to help save the whole issues with the bees that have been happening in the colony.

The colony collapses and so forth.

So there’s an awesome bag, which good to have because in Oregon because they just outlawed single use plastic bags.

I really love this.

I’m really happy that they sent that off to me. It’s just such a lovely thing, but look, every time I look at this bag, what am I going to think of?

Just something real simple. Something real subtle.

They gave me a nice little piece of swag, what they call, when it’s inscribed with the name of your business and everything, and it’s just something just a little bit extra, just a little bit.

Not that I’m asking that from any podcast guest. But I’m telling you, if you want to get publicity. If you want to get your name out there, get people talking about you and get in the good graces of the people that have those media sources.

Then that’s the type of thing you do.

You get on there, you thank them for getting you on there.

If you can give them a little gift or a little card, that’s great. If you can’t, it’s no big deal, but keeping their good graces, stay out there in front of them and you too will get constant free publicity and you’ll always be out there in the public eye.

Glory Bee does a great job of that.

She talks a lot about that on the podcast, so go listen to that interview.

If you are in the self-reliance field and you’re a owner or an executive, one of the decision makers at your company, I’d love to be able to talk with you. Go to DreamBizChat.com and watch the video there.

Explains this whole process.

I call the Dream Business Transformation.

Trust me, it’s free. Go check it out. And in the meantime, we’re back here every day.

Yesterday we missed but tomorrow, I think I’m going to give you a two videos for the price of one, just because we missed yesterday’s date.

Where Will Your Business Be In 40 Years?

Where Will Your Business Be In 40 Years?

Where will your business be in 40 years?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you live from Grants Pass, Oregon. We come at you alive every day.

Today we’re back at the headquarters for BrianJPombo.com and today I wanted to discuss the concept of legacy for you and your business.

Really I wanted you to take kind of an exercise, that most business owners very rarely take. And that is stepping back and thinking about your business in the long run.

So in the next 20, 40, 80 years, where is your business going to be?

Where’s it going to be when you’re gone?

Where would you want it to be?

What would be the best case scenario?

What’s the worst case scenario?

What are you doing today to make the best case scenario most likely to happen?

This is some pretty long-term goal setting type of thing that most of us don’t really consider or think about.

But I want you to think about this because I had an interview with a RaeJean Wilson of Glory Bee Honey and foods. And that their whole company that handles much more than honey, but they’re, they’re known for their honey.

They’re out of Eugene, Oregon.

Her parents started the company 45 years ago and yet she’s in a position where she’s one of the owners and one of the people in charge now of running this company long-term. Her and her brother and as well and other people in the family and so forth.

So their family took over where their parents left off.

That’s not always the case of what happens. It’s not always the case of of what ends up happening even when the parents wanted or even if you don’t have children or you don’t have anyone that you think is going to be able to take over.

Do you want it to be taken over?

Do you want to be able to sell off to somebody else?

Where is your business going in the long run?

What’s amazing is the things that Glory Bee is doing today is really based off of the legacy that their parents laid out for them. And RaeJean talks about that.

If you want to listen to that podcast interview, it’s on The Off The Grid Biz Podcast.

You can listen to it wherever you listen to podcasts.

You could also click on the link that’s in a description for OffTheGridBiiz.com and it’ll take you directly to that official interview.

So the reason why I thought about this is also today I was touring in old Sacramento for a couple hours. Just taking my kids around because they had never been there and we’re just kind of checking it out.

I haven’t been there in years. And there was a institution there called Fat City and Fat City was open by the Fat family. Specifically the person that started the entire franchise of fat restaurants in the Sacramento area.

His name was Frank Fat.

Frank Fat was a immigrant that came over from China and he built up this, kind of, restaurant empire there locally in the Sacramento area and one of them was Fat City, which was opened in the 70s.

Well, I noticed on the door that it said that they were closing down and I had just heard this from somebody else said that is was due to a death in the family and they were closing their doors since the 70s. And that empire started in 1939. So you’re talking about an 80 year empire of restaurants.

I think some of the other restaurants are staying open, but that particular one, Fat City is one of the ones that’s closing.

And that was a major deal because when I worked in Sacramento, it was one of the places that everyone used to go to because it’s right over in Old Sacramento, was kind of an old area if you’ve never been.

It’s very quaint and very cool. And it was a really nice vibe in that restaurant. It’s one of those things that’s going to be missed, but it brought to mind this concept of legacy. And it brought to mind the interview that I had with RaeJean.

It’s important for everyone to kind of sit back and think, okay, where are we going with this?

For next year and the next five years.

But if you could think beyond that, it will bring more power to all the decisions that you’re making today because it will have more of a deeper purpose as opposed to just being, you know, for selfish reasons.

You know, we all need to have those selfish reasons in order for us to get up in the morning and go and do what we need to do at work and to build our business.

But if you’ve got to have something beyond that, that really gives you the energy to really make things happen.

If you need help kind of developing some of these concepts for your own business, I’d love to be able to talk with you that you’d go to BrianJPombo.com and see if you qualify to be able to meet with me and talk to me either through a video chat, through a one-on-one in person, or over the phone.

If you are in the self-reliance field like RaeJean, meaning you’ve have products and services that help people to become more self reliant either through a hobby or through or through a new career or what have you.

You can go check out DreamBizChat.com.

DreamBizChat.com is a great place with a video, an eight and a half minute video.

See if you qualify for a free Dream Business Transformation with me over the phone virtually.

Or if you live within the next few hours of Southern Oregon, maybe we can even get together one-on-one.

So go check that out, DreamBizChat.com and we’re here every day.

Come on back tomorrow wherever you watch or listen to our video conversations that we have on Brian J. Pombo Live.

We’ll see you tomorrow. So in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.